An interesting thing that I came to know today.

Let leaf-peepers in New England ooh and aah over maples and mulled cider: here, fearless citizens like Bob Beck, a 69-year-old floral designer, risk dermatological disaster to harvest comely sprays of Toxicodendron diversilobum for what may be the country’s strangest autumn ritual: the Annual Poison Oak Show.

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